POSITIONAL NAVIGATION GRAPHIC LINK SYSTEM

• US 20070214436A1
• Filed: 03/11/2007
• Published: 09/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Raymond Myers
• Original Assignee: Raymond Myers
• Inventors: Myers, Raymond
• Application Number:
  US11/684,626
• Publication Number:
  US 20070214436A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/856
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

The present invention is a positional navigation link system for displaying an active graphic symbol or cluster of symbols at a user-selected location on a display screen. At least one active graphic symbol is stored on the system. The active graphic symbol(s) can represent, for example, close, minimize, go to previous page, go to next page, go to top of window, go to bottom of window, refresh, save and print. The active graphic symbol(s) are displayed at a location on the display screen selected by a user. Each function represented by each active graphic symbol is executable by the user, so that both the active graphic symbol(s) and the function(s) represented thereby are conveniently accessible. The location on the display screen at which the active graphic symbol(s) appear is at the tip of the mouse pointer or, in the case of laptop or notebook computers used without benefit of a mouse, at the tip of the display pointer.

Claims

1. A positional navigation link system for displaying an active graphic symbol at a user-selected location on a display screen, comprising:

a) means for storing an active graphic symbol;

b) means for displaying said active graphic symbol at a location on a display screen selected by a user; and

c) means for activating a function represented by said active graphic symbol by said user;

whereby said active graphic symbol and the function represented thereby are conveniently accessible by said user at said location on a display screen.

2. The positional navigation link system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said active graphic symbol comprises a plurality of active graphic symbols arranged in a cluster.

3. The positional navigation link system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said location on a display screen comprises a location thereon on which no executable actions appear, when the left click is used to invoke the positional navigational link.

4. The positional navigation link system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said location on a display screen comprises a location thereon on which no executable actions appear, when the option to use only display pointer or mouse pointer movement to invoke the positional navigational link.

5. The positional navigation link system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said location on a display screen comprises a location thereon on which has no constraints for display pointer or mouse pointer placement meaning the display pointer or mouse pointer can be placed anywhere, when the right click is used to invoke the positional navigational link.

6. The positional navigation link system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said function is at least one of the group:

close the window, minimize the window, go to previous window, go to next window, go to top of window, go to bottom of window, refresh, print and save.

7. The positional navigation link system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for displaying said active graphic symbol is launched by left clicking on a mouse or pointer device.

8. The positional navigation link system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for displaying said active graphic symbol is launched by simple movement of the display pointer or mouse pointer in a white space display area.

9. The positional navigation link system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said means for displaying said active graphic symbol is launched by right clicking on a mouse or pointer device.

10. The positional navigation link system in accordance with claim 2, wherein said cluster of symbols appears at said location on a display screen comprises a location thereon on which no executable actions appear, when the left click is used to invoke the positional navigational link.

11. The positional navigation link system in accordance with claim 2, wherein said cluster of symbols appears at said location on a display screen comprises a location thereon on which no executable actions appear, when only display pointer or mouse pointer movement is used to invoke the positional navigational link.

12. The positional navigation link system in accordance with claim 2, wherein said cluster of symbols appears at said location on a display screen comprises a location thereon on which has no constraints for display pointer or mouse pointer placement meaning the display pointer or mouse pointer can be placed anywhere, when the right click is used to invoke the positional navigational link.